Leng Aotian saw nothing wrong with calling Tianyuan in the Southern Region a backwater.
Before this, he had indeed never heard anything about the Southern Region.
One could even say that, in his eyes, no world outside the Ten Great Sacred Domains deserved the effort of serious consideration or attention.
The Ten Great Sacred Domains occupied the lands with the most abundant spiritual qi in the entire Great Cang World, placing them fundamentally above the other small worlds.
That was also why other Great Emperors could spend their entire lives cultivating and still never advance beyond the first-layer Great Emperor realm.
Yet Leng Aotian had crossed that threshold when he was just over nine thousand years old, becoming the sole overlord of the Heavenly Star Realm.
He hovered in the air like a god descending upon the world, looking down as he scrutinized Chen Mu and the others.
Then his Berserk Saint Body manifested! His Transcendent Thunder Saint Body manifested!
Dense, blood-red spiritual qi enveloped him, accompanied by flickering azure lightning patterns and the Thunder-Roaring Sword in his hand. The domineering might of a second-layer Great Emperor swept across the entire Tianyuan Holy Land!
It startled Chen Tianlin in the Holy Lord's Residence.
"That's... someone from the Sacred Domains!"
He wanted to intervene, but then his divine sense swept over Chen Mu, who was present.
Chen Tianlin decisively abandoned the idea of making a fool of himself.
This old fellow might seem invincible to outsiders, but Chen Tianlin was absolutely certain that he could not measure up to even a single finger of his precious son.
Besides, with so many Great Emperor realm experts present, how could it possibly be his turn to act?
"Submit or die? I will give you only three seconds to choose."
Leng Aotian's lips never